Empower your Day in Just Seconds
Grantley Morris
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When Jesus warned his disciples to pray they not fall into temptation because the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:41), I had always thought Jesus was rebuking them for having weak flesh (willpower). Eventually someone rocked me with the comment, The flesh is always weak (compare Romans 7:18). Suddenly the lights went on inside of me. That is why Alcoholics Anonymous have their famous slogan, Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. That is why Jesus urged daily prayer, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, just as he urged us to pray for daily bread. (The latter, incidentally, was another thing I had arrogantly thought an unnecessary prayer, just because I have money in the bank.) We constantly need an awareness of our utter dependence upon Gods protection and provision. When at last this hit home I was astonished at the grace of God that I had not fallen long before now. Like everyone else, I am terrifyingly vulnerable in any area in which I think my need of divine protection is less than desperate, because that is the area over which I am not continually calling down divine protection.
Taken from Victory over Temptation
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